The song City Streets was written after the ninth resident from the juvenile detention was killed in the streets of providence RI. Since that time the number is in the thousands, and those in the adult prison is even more. Most parents are single parent familes, and do not continue in the things Of God, and I am sorry to say, it is because they were not taught! Not teaching our children, that they can Trust In THE LORD, is without a doubt on us! Every adult will be held responsible for our children. They follow example more than spoken words, Unless we are speaking THE WORDS OF GOD, WHICH GOES OUT AND Never Comes Back Void! (Isaiah 55:11-12) It Will Accomplish Everything It Says! So I ask the question How many more, will die or end up in prison? We will be accountable! As a chaplain my heart breaks at the brokenness of the hearts of all that i that i work with. But Thank GOD FOR JESUS CHRIST WHO SAID THAT HE WAS ANNOINTED TO HEAL The broken heart and to Make the captive free. (Isaiah 61:1-3 & Luke 4: 18-) In Psalm 78 fathers are commanded to teach their children to set their hope in GOD! So that they will teach their children to do the same! Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge: Because thou hast rejected Knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten THE LAW OF thy GOD, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 6:6 For I Desired Mercy, And not sacrifice; And The Knowledge Of God More than burnt offerings. Psalms 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, Psalms 71:1 In Thee, O LORD, Do I Put my Trust: let me never be put to confusion. Isaiah 30:3 Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion. Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion. Isaiah 45:16 They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. Isaiah 61:7 For your shame ye Shall Have Double; and for confusion they Shall Rejoice In their Portion: Therefore In their Land they Shall Possess The Double: Everlasting Joy Shall Be Unto them. (PROMISE) Jeremiah 3:25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against THE LORD our GOD, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto This Day, and have not obeyed THE VOICE OF THE LORD our GOD. Jeremiah 7:19 Do they provoke Me to anger? SAITH THE LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Jeremiah 20:11 But THE LORD Is With me As A Mighty Terrible One: Therefore my persecutors Shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. Daniel 9:7 O LORD, Righteousness Belongeth Unto Thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at This Day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, Because Of their trespass that they have trespassed against Thee. Daniel 9:8 O LORD, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, Because we have sinned against Thee. 1 Corinthians 14:33 For GOD is not the author of confusion, But Of Peace, As In All churches of the saints. James 3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Deuteronomy 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which In That Day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, And Unto them Will I Give It, And they Shall Possess It. 1 Samuel 2:3 |Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: For THE LORD Is A GOD Of Knowledge, And By Him Actions Are Weighed. 2 Chronicles 1:10 Give me Now Wisdom And Knowledge, That I May Go Out And Come In Before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great? 2 Chronicles 1:11 And God Said to Solomon, Because This Was in thine Heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast Asked Wisdom And Knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king: 2 Chronicles 1:12 |Wisdom And Knowledge Is Granted Unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like. 2 Chronicles 30:22 And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites That Taught The Good Knowledge Of THE LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, And Making Confession To THE LORD GOD Of their fathers. Nehemiah 10:28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, And All they That Had Separated themselves from the people of the lands unto THE LAW OF GOD, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, Every One Having Knowledge, And Having Understanding; Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto GOD, Depart from us; for we desire not the Knowledge Of Thy Ways. Psalms 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not UPON THE LORD. Psalms 119:66 Teach me Good Judgment And Knowledge: For I Have Believed Thy Commandments. Proverbs 1:4 To Give Subtilty To The Simple, to the young man Knowledge And Discretion. Proverbs 1:7 The Fear Of THE LORD Is The Beginning Of Knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, And Did Not Choose THE FEAR OF THE LORD: Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou Criest After Knowledge, And Liftest Up thy Voice For Understanding; Proverbs 2:5 Then Shalt thou Understand THE FEAR OF THE LORD, And Find The Knowledge Of GOD. Proverbs 2:6 For THE LORD Giveth Wisdom: Out Of His Mouth Cometh Knowledge And Understanding. Proverbs 9:10 THE FEAR OF THE LORD Is The Beginning Of Wisdom: And The Knowledge Of THE HOLY IS UNDERSTANDING. Proverbs 12:1 Whoso Loveth Instruction Loveth Knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. Proverbs 14:7 |Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips Of Knowledge. Proverbs 17:27 He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit. Proverbs 19:27 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from The Words Of Knowledge. Proverbs 22:12 The Eyes Of THE LORD Preserve Knowledge, And He overthroweth the words of the transgressor. Isaiah 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no Knowledge: And their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 11:2 And The Spirit OF THE LORD Shall Rest Upon him, The Spirit Of Wisdom And Understanding, The Spirit Of Counsel And Might, The Spirit Of Knowledge And Of THE FEAR OF THE LORD; Isaiah 28:9 |whom Shall He Teach Knowledge? And whom Shall He Make To Understand Doctrine? them that are Weaned From The Milk, And Drawn From the breasts. Hosea 4:1 Hear THE WORD OF THE LORD, ye children of israel: For THE LORD Hath A Controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no Truth, nor Mercy, nor Knowledge Of GOD in the land. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge: Because thou hast rejected Knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten THE LAW OF thy GOD, I will also forget thy children. Hosea 6:6 For I Desired Mercy, And not sacrifice; And The Knowledge Of God More than burnt offerings. Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth Shall Be Filled With The Knowledge Of The Glory Of THE LORD, As The Waters Cover The Sea. LORD, Forgive my ignorance and Give me Knowledge Through Your Word And Your Holy Spirit Who Guides Into All Truth. Forgive my sin, Jesus Come Into me And Give me The Power, And The Right To Live As a child of God. In Jesus Christ Name Amen